Dhe Hamburger SV stopped FC St. Pauli in the 107th competitive match between the city neighbors and reduced the gap to the leaders of the second division. Coach Tim Walter’s team defeated 2-1 (0-1) at their home Volksparkstadion in St. Pauli on Friday evening and moved up to third place, three points behind their city rivals. Sebastian Schonlau (58th minute) and Bakery Jatta (70th) scored the goals for HSV. Guido Burgstaller (30′) scored on the other side and scored his 15th goal of the season from close range. HSV thus ended their winning streak of five games against their neighbors (four defeats, one draw) and has good prospects in the promotion race.
“Nice for our fans,” said HSV coach Tim Walter on Sky. “But we’re not going crazy, we want to keep going.” St. Pauli had surprisingly knocked out Bundesliga runners-up Borussia Dortmund from the DFB Cup three days earlier, but couldn’t repeat their strong performance against HSV. For the team coached by Timo Schultz it is already the fourth winless second division game in a row (two defeats, two draws) and indicates nervousness in the battle for promotion. They can lose the championship lead this weekend. “We are disappointed,” said Schultz. “We had a lot of technical errors. My boys weren’t in good shape.”
“Full Lotte!” was the slogan of HSV coach Walter, who received a yellow card for complaining in the second half. Obeying their coach’s request, the HSV pros got off to a stormy start and had four chances in the first 20 minutes. The brisk gait impressed FC St. Pauli, who initially withdrew to the defensive and hardly accomplished anything constructive in attack. Daniel Heuer Fernandes easily mastered the guests’ first shot on goal (16′).
The clear superiority of HSV brought nothing at first. So it was not the hosts who scored the opening goal, but the brown and whites. The ball was served to Burgstaller from an Eric Smith corner and the Austrian striker had no trouble.
Even after the change of sides, HSV continued to set the tone and scored a well-deserved equalizer with a header from Schonlau after a corner. Bakery Jatta finally turned the game around in favor of HSV with a solid shot after a pass from Sonny Kittel.
The prestige duel remained exciting, but was not of the highest quality. Numerous fouls on both sides prevented that. “We’re happy about the three points and the derby victory,” said goal scorer Schonlau. “We’ve played well this week.” Three days earlier, his team had thrown Bundesliga club 1. FC Köln out of the DFB Cup.
HSV cheers after defender Sebastian Schonlau (right) has made it 1-1.
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1. FC Nürnberg has at least temporarily conquered fourth place in the table and the crisis at Fortuna Düsseldorf has come to a head. In the duel of the former champions, the Franconians won 1-0 (1-0) on the Rhine and, after the third defeat in a row, increasingly brought the home side into relegation problems. Lino Tempelmann (2nd) scored the “Clubberer” with a long-range shot, which was deflected by teammate Nikola Dovedan, with the first dangerous action of the game to victory. Nürnberg increased his tally to 33 points and remains in the promotion race. Fortuna is stagnating at 20 points – and coach Christian Preusser, who came from Freiburg before the season, is likely to be thin after just one win in ten home games.
The Fortunes did not disappoint in front of 750 spectators against Nuremberg, but after the early shock they took control after just under fifteen minutes. Khaled Narey (13th) against FCN keeper Christian Mathenia and Robert Bozenik (35th) missed great opportunities to equalize. After the break, goalkeeper Florian Kastenmaier saved his team from going two goals down by deflecting a header from Christopher Schindler onto the crossbar (54′). Otherwise, almost only Düsseldorf played in the second round.
